This paper proposes a unified theoretical framework that extends classical temporal physics to include consciousness as a fundamental component of temporal experience. Rather than viewing time as a single phenomenon, we suggest that time manifests as a spectrum of interconnected temporal fields, each governed by different mathematical relationships between consciousness states and physical...
This study introduces a theoretical framework where consciousness emerges as a consequence of Prigoginian Informational Dissipation (PID), a dynamic process through which information arises in far-from-equilibrium systems. By modelling particle interactions governed by dissipative feedback, the work demonstrates how structure, memory, and complexity evolve, culminating in a proto-self...
This paper presents a constitutive, emergentist-predictive account of qualiadesigned to address the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness within a naturalistic,physicalist framework. It argues that by integrating two leading paradigmsfrom cognitive science—Predictive Processing (PP) and Global Workspace Theory(GWT)—and grounding this synthesis in a consistent non-reductive (weak)emergentism, we can...
We provide an account of the apparent intermittency of subjective experiences, between conscious and unconscious phases, grounded on three parsimonious notions: (1) the brain is an inference engine and stochastic simulator endowed with a good enough generative model of the world inherited via evolution and forged by experience, (2) the brain’s internal model of the self (itself, its body and...
Abstract The extent to which anatomical connectivity constrains pharmacologically altered brain dynamics remains poorly understood. Here, we combined psilocybin administration with a structurally informed effective-connectivity model to examine how structural connectivity shapes directed inter-regional influences across experiential contexts. Using dynamic causal modeling embedded in a...
The von Neumann attitude on such a deep interpretational question as the role of a human observer in order for the quantum description of measurement to be consistent has been long misrepresented. The large majority of the subsequent literature ascribed to von Neumann a radical view, according to which not only the collapse was in itself a truly physical process, but also the only way to...
In Fahrenfort et al., 2025 we show the influence of non-perceptual criterion shifts on neural measures of consciousness. We fully agree (and point out in our article) that it was already known that subjective measures are sensitive to criterion confounds, and we are happy to read that this is acknowledged by Sandberg and Overgaard in their comment (Sandberg and Overgaard, 2025). However, we...
Archetypal psychology is a theoretical development of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology and a critical theoretical approach to modern psychology as a whole. Among the criticisms made of psychology by its founder James Hillman, this article highlights the replacement of metaphysical perspective with a phenomenological attitude. Thus, the main objective of this article is to investigate the...
This study explores the potential for artificial agents to develop core consciousness, as proposed by Antonio Damasio's theory of consciousness. According to Damasio, the emergence of core consciousness relies on the integration of a self model, informed by representations of emotions and feelings, and a world model. We hypothesize that an artificial agent, trained via reinforcement learning...
The Bi-Interpretive Mind Framework (BIMF) introduces a dual-system model of human cognition and consciousness, positing the coexistence of two interdependent subsystems: the Primary Mind (logical, conscious, reality-testing) and the Secondary Mind (intuitive, unconscious, biologically interpretive). Subjective experience is conceptualized as emerging from the “interpretive handshake” between...